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By Monica Medina, Co-Founder and CEO, Our Daily Planet When it comes to climate action, conservation, and environmental justice, the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will bring about a marked change in the federal government’s approach to these issues. Given that major environmental legislation will be hard to achieve in Congress, much will […]
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Two companies that are committed to making environmentally friendly sneakers — Adidas and Allbirds — are teaming up to pool their best technologies to create a super environmental shoe. The two companies will take advantage of Allbirds’ lifecycle assessment tools as well as Adidas’ carbon footprint analyses and determine how to best reduce carbon dioxide […]
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Delta Airlines (the world’s largest airline) and jetBlue have recently made big commitments to lower their carbon footprint, with Delta last week pledging to become “carbon neutral,” by 2030 and plan to invest $1 billion in achieving the goal, while JetBlue announced in January that it will be the first U.S. airline to pledge to offset all domestic flights beginning in July and United Airlines had previously committed $40 million to sustainable aviation development.
Why This Matters: If governments won’t force emissions to come down through regulation, then the fact that businesses are willing to make these pledges is even more significant.
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Cement accounts for 8% of the annual emissions of carbon dioxide globally and reducing the carbon emissions from the process of making it has been a tough nut to crack, The Wall Street Journal reports. But now climate-conscious entrepreneurs are working to develop three new construction materials that could replace cement (read more about them […]
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This year, that climate guilt in the form of “flight shaming” set in. Many people started thinking hard about their own carbon footprints after climate activist Greta Thunberg made headlines by sailing to the large UN climate meetings in a solar-powered boat rather than flying to them and by taking trains to events around Europe. […]
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According to the American Automobile Association, most people prefer to see the fall colors by taking a road trip by car. But as Mother Jones points out, there are lots of low-carbon alternatives. For example, in New York City there are trains to the upstate New York trail that only take an hour and […]
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